Unreal Engine 4.x Scripting with C++ Cookbook - Second Edition

How it works...

Details Customization is performed through the IDetailCustomization interface, which developers can inherit when defining a class that customizes the way assets of a certain class are displayed.

The main function that IDetailCustomization uses to allow for this process to occur is as follows:

virtual void CustomizeDetails(IDetailLayoutBuilder& DetailBuilder) override;

Within our implementation of this function, we use methods on DetailBuilder that are passed in as parameters to get an array of all selected objects. The loop then scans those to ensure that at least one selected object is of the correct type.

Customizing the representation of a class is done by calling methods on the DetailBuilder object. We create a new category ...